High quality optics, its «Maksutov - Cassegrain» (or compound) optical design, and two great
eyepieces make for excellent nighttime viewing.
The features include Clicking Fast - Focus so
the eyepiece makes quick adjustments in the field with precision clicks and Line of Sight Distance and Scan Mode.
Not exact matches
This
makes it easy to point it precisely at the sky, without having to search through the magnified
eyepiece.
You might want to spend a few extra dollars and also get a second, lower magnification
eyepiece which
makes objects move slower through the field of view.
It comes with two
eyepieces that offer 15x and 50x magnifications, an Altazimuth Mount (for easy, two - axis adjustments), and a full - sized tripod that
makes it adjustable as your child grows up.
Tombaugh had no camera, but he was able to
make highly detailed drawings at the
eyepiece.
When I watched the Ultra HD movie Tears of Steel, fine details such as the threads in a shirt or hairs in a beard were easy to
make out, and colors such as the red light on a character's
eyepiece or the green and purple buttons on a control panel were rich.